Employee Recognition and Service Awards - Showing Appreciation to a Company's Best Asset

What constitutes employee recognition? Are service awards and employee recognition synonymous? Learn what the current trends are for recognizing a company's most valuable asset - employees.

4 Ways To Make This Year Your Most Profitable Ever

Every business wants to be more profitable so here are 4 ways to make this year your most profitable yet.

Internet Surfing in the Workplace

When considering the computer resources available in today's workplace, management has a daunting task ahead of them. They have to determine the best method to protect one of their most valuable resources... the ability to communicate via their network. Whether they are sending an email or updating the companies website, more and more organizations are relying heavily on it's companies infrastructure. Writing clear company policies and choosing the right monitoring software is a step in the right direction to ensuring the line of communication remain open.

Dealing With Poor Performance

If you are a manager or aspiring manager, sooner or later you will be faced with a member of staff who is not performing. Here my 10 tips for dealing with this situation effectively and compassionately.

Ask Seven Powerful Questions to Design Your Organisation Around its Purpose

Too many organisations are not built to suit their purpose. A periodic review of organisational design against the business purpose helps wipe away inefficient and ineffective structures. Ask these seven powerful questions to determine appropriate structures for your business purpose.

How to Remove Opposition from Your Organization

An insecure manager will sometimes try to eliminate his/her staffs even though the latter can be very competent, talented or even loyal employees. It does not matter whether you are really against the manager; as long as the manager thinks you are, and then you are out.

The Steps in Budget Planning

When it comes to budget planning there are several important steps that you need to follow to ensure you create a budget and follow it. Believe it or not but budget planning really is the easy part.

Don't Let The Process Get In The Way Of The Progress

Procrastination comes in many forms. One of those forms involves simply doing too much preparation before putting something into action

Sabotage Your Own Business?

This article suggests a novel approach for spotting risks to your business.

Conferences to Change Attitudes

Conference planning and meeting planning article bring outs how a thriving conference can change human attitudes.

How to Effectively Carry Out the Managerial Function of Directing

Directing is one of the functions of management. It is the heart of the managerial process. Managers of organizations should learn how to carry out this function effectively.

Getting Fired - Facing the Facts - and a Possible Solution

Your boss called you in and said you are difficult to get along with and are causing problems not only for him but for other people in the office. He says you resist direction and don't take criticism well. And he says you're too critical of everybody else. But you really think he's exaggerating. You think the people around you are more of a problem than you are, but on the other hand, your wife or girlfriend says the same thing about you that your boss does. What do you do?

Why We'll Beat the Fast-Rising, Tech-Savvy Underdeveloped Countries

This article expresses the turn-around underway in how US companies will regain our position as the number one economic engine in the world.

The Training and Coaching Partnership

When companies invest in training they want to maximise the growth potential for the company. The use of coaching in partnership with training can very quickly embed learning to produce results quickly.